Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Thursday’s New York Times ran an editorial on standardized testing that demands some attention. They are calling for stronger curriculums in high schools and more focused standardized testing to demonstrate accomplishment in these areas. Just last month, the NY Times ran another article exposing the coaching of students that some schools do before their tests. [...]

Last spring, there was a buzz in the air about the potential for standardized tests being used in our state colleges as an assesment of our programs. Personally, I hate standardized tests–I took them countless times throughout my primary school days (it seems we were always lucky enough to have the military move us just [...]